UN ends peacekeeping mission in Haiti as protests continue

T TV Wednesday 16/October/2019 20:27 PM
By: Times News Service

Making good on a 2017 vote, the UN Security Council ended its 15-year mission to stabilise Haiti.
It has left a mixed legacy in a country that has entered a fifth week of anti-government protests.
The UN first sent peacekeepers after the overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by the army in 2004 under the pressure of a popular uprising.
In 2017, the UN replaced those soldiers with a police mission to train Haiti's forces, gradually reducing the number of officers from 1,300 to 600 and now to zero.